A bar and a stage – those are the favorite places of Thore, Velvet and Eddie alias Sick Hyenas from Hamburg. This is reflected in their music. It reminds the listener on drunken nights where in the end everything seems possible: sex, drugs, break down.

“Radar Eyes” is overflowing with energy, in “Le Sac” the guitar is shrieking, “Oh Mother” sounds like a Western movie written by Quentin Tarentino. The songs on their first record “Sick Hyenas” (2014) mirror perfectly the live spirit of the three: impelling Garage Rock between Surf, Psych and Punk-attitude. In the thick of it they recite lewd poems by the authors Charles Bukowski and Allen Ginsberg.

The band name aims as well for an explosive mixture: “Hyenas are for us the absolute freaks in the animal world. Very mystical, dangerous and mad”, explains the singer Velvet. He formed Sick Hyenas in 2011 together with his cousin Thore on the guitar and his school mate Eddie on the drums. Since then they are performing on the stages in St. Pauli and increasingly in the world. Their record release on tape and vinyl followed a two weeks tour in 2014 through France, Germany as well as Switzerland. All this they made happening without a major music label. Facebook, Soundcloud, Instagram and others helped them, although they wouldn’t mind resigning from it. But those platforms are “the best and easiest possibility to present the band and to be discovered. We can also trace who is listening where in the world to our music”, says Thore rejoycingly. By now they have fans in Australia, Brazil, France and the USA. That pushes them to keep on playing – and makes their favorite places bars and stages even more appealing.

At the Fever Creek Intermezzo 2015 they are going to present their record as well as new songs. For example the 7” single “Sinner” which will be released in February on the French label “Six Tones De Chair Records”.